Circus Harmony Flying Trapeze School Coming to Union Station

MIAMI - JULY 8: Andrew Drechsel (L) hangs from the catch bar as he grabs Anais Alvarez as she swings off the fly bar at the The Flying Trapeze School at Bayfront Park June 8, 2007 in Miami, Florida. The outdoor school, which is presented by professional flying trapeze artists, wants to provide everyone with what they say is the opportunity to feel the absolute freedom that comes with "flying" on a trapeze. (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

Harmony Flying Trapeze Center will take circus teaching, and the people of St. Louis, to a higher level. Flying trapeze centers are increasingly popular in New York City, Boston and Seattle. (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

ST. LOUIS, Mo. (KMOX) – A new attraction is flying into Union Station.

As first reported Thursday on KMOX Radio’s Total Information AM, Circus Harmony, a school inside City Museum which teaches people how to clown around, is opening the Circus Harmony Flying Trapeze School under the train shed.

“The flying trapeze just doesn’t fit in our glass ring on the third floor of the City Museum,” says artistic and executive director of Circus Harmony, Jessica Hentoff.

So this April the Circus Harmony Flying Trapeze School will open in its new location behind Union Station, but Hentoff expects it to quickly become an attraction that is hard to miss.

“You will see the flying rig, and you’ll be able to watch people fly,” she says. “It’s going to be a thing when you want to come and see the fish and go on the paddle boat. People are often just going to be entertained watching people flying.”

The rest of Circus Harmony’s classes will remain in the City Museum building.

Hentoff says its just another step in the revitalization of the historic landmark. “The new ownership wants to make [Union Station] both business and family-friendly,” she says.

But she wouldn’t elaborate on what else Union Station’s new owner Steve O’Loughlin has planned, but says, “they have a lot of great plans in the works.”